Vernacular Names.
— "Red Box." It goes most commonly under this name in the South Coast and Monaro, in reference to its pinkish colour when fresh.
"Of late it has received the local name of 'Grey Box' from the splitters and saw-millers." (A. W. Howitt, speaking of GippsIand.) "Yellow Box" of the County of Cumberland, N.S.W. (see this page and also p. 60). "Bastard Box" of the County of Cumberland, N.S.W. (see this page and also p. 60). It is called "Bastard Box," from a belief amongst soine timber men that it is a tree of which the true Yellow Box (melliodora) is one of the parents.